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A14439
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A true relation of the late battell fought in New England, between the English, and the salvages vvith the present state of things there.
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Vincent, Philip, b. 1600.
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1637
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STC 24758; ESTC S111542
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a_o true_a relation_n of_o the_o late_a battle_n fight_v in_o new_a england_n between_o the_o english_a and_o the_o savage_n with_o the_o present_a state_n of_o thing_n there_o london_n print_v by_o m._n p._n for_o nathanael_n butter_n and_o john_n bellamy_n 1637._o ad_fw-la lectorem_fw-la authoris_fw-la carmen_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d de_fw-fr victoria_fw-la hac_fw-la nov'-anglica_n 1637._o dvcit_fw-la in_o americam_fw-la varios_fw-la gens_fw-la angla_n colonos_fw-la et_fw-la bene_fw-la conveniunt_fw-la sydera_fw-la terra_fw-la solum_fw-la ast_n ferus_fw-la hoc_fw-la prohibet_fw-la solis_fw-la vagabundus_fw-la in_o arvis_fw-la insolitóque_fw-la aliquos_fw-la incola_fw-la marte_fw-la necat_fw-la quod_fw-la simul_fw-la invitas_fw-la crimen_fw-la pervenit_fw-la ad_fw-la aures_fw-la angligenûm_fw-la ira_fw-la o_fw-la murmur_n cuncta_fw-la fremunt_fw-la tunc_fw-la laesi_fw-la justa_fw-la arma_fw-la movent_fw-la hostemque_fw-la sequuntur_fw-la struxerat_fw-la haud_fw-la vanis_fw-la qui_fw-la munimenta_fw-la locis_fw-la invadunt_fw-la vallum_fw-la palis_fw-la sudibusque_fw-la munitum_fw-la pax_fw-la erit_fw-la hoc_fw-la uno_fw-la solvitur_fw-la ira_fw-la modo_fw-la vndique_fw-la concîdunt_fw-la omnes_fw-la pars_fw-la una_fw-la crematur_fw-la post_fw-la caesi_fw-la aut_fw-la capti_fw-la cetera_fw-la turba_fw-la luit_fw-la utraque_fw-la laetatur_fw-la pequetanis_fw-la anglia_fw-it victis_fw-la et_fw-la novus_fw-la aeternum_fw-la hîc_fw-la figimur_fw-la hospes_fw-la ait_fw-la virginia_n exultat_fw-la vicina_fw-la novoniae_fw-la gaudet_fw-la signaque_fw-la securae_fw-la certa_fw-la quietis_fw-la habent_fw-la plaudite_fw-la qui_fw-la colitis_fw-la mavortia_fw-la saecra_fw-la nepotes_fw-la et_fw-la serat_fw-la incultos_fw-la tutus_fw-la arator_fw-la agros_fw-la qua_fw-la novus_fw-la orbis_fw-la erat_fw-la spiranti_fw-la numine_fw-la lector_fw-la anglia_fw-it nascetur_fw-la quae_fw-la novus_fw-la orbis_fw-la erit_fw-la p._n vincentius_n a_o true_a relation_n 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